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How To Be
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How to Be is a 2008 independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Oliver Irving. It is about a man named Art, played by Robert Pattinson. The film premiered in competition at 2008 Slamdance Film Festival on 18 January 2008, the film was also selected to open 2008 Strasbourg International Film Festival and Pattinson received Best Actor in a Feature award for his portrayal of Art at the festival. Art is not talented, but aspires to be a musician and he has a dead-end job at a supermarket, despite having a degree. Art is then forced to back home with his cold. Art buys a book titled, Its Not Your Fault, upon reading it, he tries to follow the self-help books advice. The film also stars Jeremy Hardy as Arts superior at the centre at which he volunteers. Initially Simon Amstell was attached to the project, talking about the casting Irving said that He understood what we wanted to achieve, he was musical and had completely the right look. To find all those elements was incredible, the piece in the puzzle. For his role of awkward and geeky musician in the film, things like that played down his apparent good looks. And about his abilities, Irving added that He downplayed how good he was. Filming took place in early 2007, how to Be was released in the United States by IFC Festival Direct on 29 April 2009. Leading up to the release, the director, Oliver Irving, the DVD was released first in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2009 and was released in the United States on 17 November 2009. The score for the film was composed by Joe Hastings and songs for the album was chosen by music supervisor Gary Moore, the album contain 23-tracks, three original songs performed by Robert Pattinson and by musician-actor Johnny White, who plays Ronny in the film. It also features Old Man by Love, Clear Spot by Captain Beefheart, the album was released by Dreamboat Records on 28 April 2009. But ultimately praised Pattinson that performance is interesting and he hits the pitch with the pseudo-musician who only scratches few chords on the guitar, but still want to live their art. However Peter Debruge from Variety gave the film a review by saying that is a taxing reminder that middle-class depression ranks among cinemas least engaging topics. How to Be had its premiere at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival

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Slamdance Film Festival Poster
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How to Be Soundtrack: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Robert Pattinson
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Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson is an English actor, producer, model, and musician. Pattinson started his career by playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Twilight brought Pattinson worldwide fame, and established him among the highest paid, in 2009, he portrayed Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes. That same year, a film, Robsessed, about the actors fame. He appeared as a young man in Remember Me and also starred in a romantic drama. His performance as a tough, cold-hearted and calculating billionaire in David Cronenbergs Cosmopolis, Pattinson started his career as a model at the age of 12. In 2013 Dior Homme signed him as the face of their Fragrances, in 2016, he also became the first brand ambassador of their Menswear collection. Pattinson composes and plays his own music and he has sang songs for Twilight film series and the 2008 independent comedy-drama film How to Be. He became ambassador of the latter in 2015 to help raise awareness of it. He is also a member of International Medical Corps and has promoted and shared details about cancer through PSAs to raise awareness about the disease and his father, Richard, imported vintage cars from the United States, and his mother, Clare, worked for a modelling agency. Pattinson has two sisters, Victoria and singer Elizabeth Lizzy Pattinson. Growing up in Barnes, London, he attended Tower House School until he was 12 and he became involved in amateur theatre at the Barnes Theatre Company. He auditioned and was cast in a role in Guys. He next auditioned for Thornton Wilders Our Town, and was cast as George Gibbs and he also appeared in Anything Goes and Macbeth. He caught the attention of an agent in a production of Tess of the dUrbervilles. In May 2005, he was scheduled to appear in the UK premiere of The Woman Before at the Royal Court Theatre, later that year he played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. For this role he was named that years British Star of Tomorrow by The Times and had more than once been hailed as the next Jude Law. In 2006, Pattinson appeared in The Haunted Airman a psychological thriller, aired on BBC Four on 31 October, the Stage praised his performance by saying that played the airman of the title with a perfect combination of youthful terror and world weary cynicism

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Jon Heder
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Jonathan Joseph Jon Heder is an American actor and producer. His feature film came in 2004 as the title character of the comedy film Napoleon Dynamite. Heder was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, the son of Helen and Dr. James Heder and he has an identical twin brother, Dan, as well as an older sister and brother, Rachel and Doug, and two younger brothers, Adam and Matt. Heder is the nephew by marriage of former NFL running back and current WCAU sportscaster, Heder is of part Swedish descent. Heder and his parents moved to Salem, Oregon, when he was two years old. He attended Walker Middle School in Salem and graduated from South Salem High School in 1996, a 2002 alumnus of Brigham Young University, Heder worked on the short CGI animated film Pet Shop, written by Logan Deans, which earned a non-traditional animation student Emmy in 2005. After his movie career took off, he did not return to complete the work he started on the short, while attending BYU he befriended Jared Hess and starred in Hess short film Peluca, which was later expanded into Napoleon Dynamite. Peluca received rave reviews on the BYU campus after showing at a few college and local film festivals, Napoleon Dynamite, filmed in Preston, Idaho, earned $44.5 million at the box office. In June 2005, Heder received the MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Performance, on October 8,2005, he hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest Ashlee Simpson. After his success with Napoleon Dynamite, Heder and his film co-star Efren Ramirez filmed a series of commercials to promote the Utahs 2005 State Fair and they reprised their roles in a self-parody sketch called Napoleon Bonamite on the animated series Robot Chicken. Heder appeared in the film The Sasquatch Gang and he had a supporting role as a clerk in a new age bookstore in the romantic comedy Just Like Heaven. He was the voice of the character Skull in the animated film Monster House, like many of Heders films, Blades of Glory is an absurd, slapstick caricature, in this case revolving around rival male figure skaters who must team up in a pairs competition. Heders second turn at voice acting came in 2007 when he voiced the character of Chicken Joe and his first foray into web television was in the 2008 web series Woke Up Dead starring and produced by Heder. Woke Up Dead is a web-based, live-action sci-fi comedy thriller about Drex, Jon and his twin brother Dan star together as villains in the fourth installment of the popular internet martial arts comedy series Sockbaby. Jons performance in When in Rome was praised by New York Times critic A. O. Scott, Jon Heder as a goofy street magician is the funniest of the bunch. In 2012, Heder returned to the role made him famous by supplying the voice of Napoleon Dynamite in the Fox Network animated series, Napoleon Dynamite. In 2013, Heder appeared in the video for On Top of the World with numerous other Utah-based actors and musicians. Jon Heder has been married to Kirsten Bales since 2002, the couple met while they were studying at Brigham Young University

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David Krumholtz
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David Krumholtz is an American actor. He played Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numbers and he played Seth Goldstein in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its two sequels, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. He is also known for his role as Bernard the Elf in The Santa Clause and its sequel, additionally, he is known for his role as Mr. Universe in the 2005 film Serenity and played Michael the AV geek in 10 Things I Hate About You. In 2016, he provided the voice for Kareem Abdul Lavash in the animated film Sausage Party. Krumholtz was born in Queens, New York City and he is the son of Judy, a dental assistant, and Michael Krumholtz, a postal worker. He grew up in a very working-class, almost poor Jewish family and his mother moved from Hungary to the U. S. in 1956, and his paternal grandparents emigrated from Poland. At the age of 13, Krumholtz followed his friends to an audition for the Broadway play Conversations with My Father. When he tried out, he won the role of Young Charlie, with Judd Hirsch, Tony Shalhoub and Jason Biggs, who was also making his Broadway debut. Soon after his run on Broadway, Krumholtz co-starred in two films, Life With Mikey with Michael J. Fox and Addams Family Values with Christina Ricci. For his role in Mikey, David was nominated for a 1993 Young Artist Award, however, for unknown reasons, he did not reprise the role of Bernard in The Santa Clause 3, The Escape Clause. In 1994, Krumholtz co-starred in his first television series, Monty, with Henry Winkler, Krumholtz later starred in several short-lived series over the years. Along the way, he had the opportunity to work with Jason Bateman, Tom Selleck, Jon Cryer, in 2005, he finally found television success with the CBS series Numbers. Along with his roles on television, Krumholtz made guest appearances on ER as schizophrenic patient Paul Sobriki, as well as on Law & Order, Undeclared, Lucky. He broke out of the movie genre with The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee. In 1999, David starred as Michael Eckman in the teen movie 10 Things I Hate About You with Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles. That same year, he portrayed a completely different teen character – that of Yussel and it was the role of Yussel that brought Krumholtz to the attention of actor and filmmaker Edward Burns, who cast him in the independent film Sidewalks of New York. Playing the romantic and slightly obsessed Benny, Krumholtz was on a path to larger and his first role as a leading man was in the romantic comedy You Stupid Man, opposite Milla Jovovich. Although never released theatrically in the United States, You Stupid Man, Krumholtz carried his first leading role in a released American film when he starred Big Shot, Confessions of a Campus Bookie, which premiered on FX Networks

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Krumholtz at the 2012 PaleyFest: Fall TV CBS Preview Party
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Krumholtz at the premiere of Serenity in September 2005

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Melonie Diaz
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Melonie Diaz is an American actress who has appeared in many independent films, including four shown at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Diaz was born in New York City, and was raised along with her sister on the Lower East Side. She became interested in acting at the Henry Street Settlement and subsequently attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan. S,122, and the New York City Fringe Festival. Television work at this time included an episode of Law & Order and a pilot for Queens Supreme. She was subsequently cast by Jamie Babbit in the role of Anna in Itty Bitty Titty Committee as well as a role in Hamlet 2, Be Kind Rewind. She appeared in the Mary J. Blige video We Got Hood Love which debuted on May 10,2010, in 2012, she starred in the indie romantic comedy, She Wants Me with Josh Gad and Kristen Ruhlin. In a hyped-up, Woody Allen, Annie Hall-type film, she plays a girl who caught in a love triangle between aspiring artists and a celebrity. In 2013, she appeared in Fruitvale Station, a based on the shooting of Oscar Grant. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it earned the U. S, grand Jury Prize, Dramatic and the Audience Award, U. S. Dramatic. The film had its premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. For her work in the movie she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and she has expressed a desire to return to Tisch in order to complete her degree in filmmaking, citing director Kathryn Bigelow as an inspiration. In 2014 she appeared briefly on an episode of Girls as Season and that same year she appeared in Ryan Piers Williams film X/Y alongside America Ferrera as well as The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler. Melonie Diaz at the Internet Movie Database Diaz’s Top Indie Flicks

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Justin Long
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Justin Jacob Long is an American actor. He is known for roles in films as Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Accepted, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Live Free or Die Hard, Alpha and Omega, Tusk. He played Warren Cheswick on the NBC TV series Ed, and his grandmother was of Sicilian descent. Long had a conservative Roman Catholic upbringing and his older brother, Damian, is a local stage actor as well as a teacher and theatre director at Weston High School. Longs film credits include Idiocracy, Waiting, Jeepers Creepers, DodgeBall, A True Underdog Story, The Break-Up, Crossroads, Galaxy Quest, Dreamland and Live Free or Die Hard. He was also a regular on the NBC TV series Ed and he voiced the character of Alvin in Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Squeakquel, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Chipwrecked, and Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Road Chip. He also played the character in the 2006 comedy film Accepted. Long made a guest appearance in the 2006 documentary, Wild West Comedy Show, in 2007, he co-starred with Bruce Willis as a white-hat hacker in Live Free or Die Hard and had a role in the film, The Sasquatch Gang. Long is known for his depiction of a Mac in Apples Get a Mac campaign, the campaign featured commercials in which Long as a Mac and John Hodgman as a PC engaged in playful banter about the strengths of the Mac platform and weaknesses of the PC platform. Long also had a role in the 2008 comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno, where he plays Brandon St. Randy. In 2009, he starred in Hes Just Not That into You along with co-star Ginnifer Goodwin and After. Life opposite Liam Neeson and he also provided the voice of Humphrey in Alpha and Omega, starring with Hayden Panettiere. Also in 2010, Long starred in the comedy Going the Distance with Drew Barrymore and he was cast as a one-armed Civil War veteran in Robert Redfords The Conspirator. Long read the audiobook version of Judy Blumes Then Again, Maybe I Wont, from July 7–18,2010, he appeared in a production of Samuel J. and K. at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. On August 16,2010, he co-hosted WWE Raw with Going the Distance co-stars Charlie Day, in 2014 he starred in the independent love drama Comet, which he and his co-star Emmy Rossum also produced. He had a relationship with Drew Barrymore, but they broke up in July 2008 and he also dated Amanda Seyfried from mid-2013 for two years, breaking up in September 2015. He started dating CHVRCHES singer Lauren Mayberry in 2016, Justin Long at the Internet Movie Database Video interview with Justin Long at the premiere of The Break-Up

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Amy Sedaris
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Amy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, voice actress, singer, author, screenwriter and comedian. She is known for playing Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy and she regularly collaborates with her older brother David, a humorist and author. Since 2014, Sedaris has voiced the character Princess Carolyn in the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman and her father is of Greek descent and her mother was Anglo-American. Her father is Greek Orthodox, and her mother was a Protestant and she was raised in her fathers Greek Orthodox faith. At age 16, Sedaris worked at her local Winn-Dixie supermarket and she would make fake announcements over the loudspeaker, prompting the head cashier to confiscate the microphone. After work, she egged the cashiers car in protest, later, as a cocktail waitress at Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago, Illinois, she was fired for being five minutes late. She took her revenge on her boss, I took his keys, I heard he found them in the spring. The show ran for three seasons, beginning in 1999, Sedaris portrayed Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy. The show, which she co-wrote with Dinello and Colbert, was based on Sedariss impression of 1970s-era motivational speaker Florrie Fisher, the show ran for three seasons and would later inspire a full-length movie. Sedaris has made numerous guest appearances on a number of different TV programs, including Rescue Me, Monk, Wonder Showzen, Just Shoot Me. Sex and the City, My Name Is Earl, The Closer, The Middle, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Raising Hope, Sedaris also hosted the series Film Fanatic on Trio. Sedaris has appeared on talk shows, including the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan OBrien. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, in 2007, Sedaris was featured in Dolly Partons first mainstream country music video in 14 years, Better Get to Livin. It was announced in October 2008 that Sedaris would be getting her own sitcom, produced by 20th Century Fox, also in late 2008, Sedaris did voiceovers in several commercials for the discount hair salon SuperCuts. In January 2009, Sedaris narrated the PBS special Make Em Laugh, The Funny Business of America, in early 2010, she appeared as a supporting character in the Canadian comedy series The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour. In December 2010, Sedaris was seen with Paul Dinello in the Mummified Hand episode of the Discovery/Science Channel show Oddities, in 2011, she appeared in a series of commercials for Downy Unstopables, a fabric softener product. The ad was designed by Grey with the aim of kicking the old mom image with spots featuring laundry expert Amy Sedaris, in 2013, she played the sex-crazed sister Hershe Heartshe, in the Adult Swim surreal comedy horror show The Heart, She Holler. In 2013, Sedaris appeared in eight episodes of Amazons Alpha House, Sedaris played Louise Laffer, the Mormon wife of Utah Senator Louis Laffer, who lives with three other Republican senators in a town house on Capitol Hill

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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database